Good Magazine is asking readers to share stories about how design and technology helped you (or someone you love) learn. There are some interesting responses from students who detail how computer games, online resources, ebooks, and even TV helped them navigate educational/social challenges:

In 3rd grade, one girl used a computer game to learn spelling and grammar in Spanish

eBooks reinvigorated and recharged a young student to become more engaged with her schoolwork

Learning how to type via an online tool, inspired a young girl to write stories

Everyday we help publishers and media-centric organizations with their eLearning programs. We see first hand that it's not only about getting content online but also structuring it and developing it in such a way that it supports your complete pedagogical package.

Cenveo's eLearning team provides curriculum-aligned rich media content content for eLearning portfolios. Our digital services span the content development lifecycle and provide quality content that is architected for your needs and packaged in a way that educational publishers achieve their objective---helping people learn.

The full report is worth reading and provides a list of references that support the statistics. The biggest takeaway is that publishers need to continue to architect and markup content so that it is easily packaged and deliverable across all outputs.

It's increasingly important to break out the content from its container and markup chunks of content in a way to improve online discoverabilty, which can then be purchased in whatever format the end user wants. One of the strengths of the ePub standard is that it includes packaging, metadata, and content as cleanly articulated components. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we are helping publishers implement ePub in their workflows.

Registration for London Book Fair is open and it's time to schedule your trip to the leading publishing event of the year! Cenveo Publisher Services is proud to take part in the event and will be meeting publishers and industry analysts at stand 3A18 in the Tech Zone.

Professionals from all corners of the publishing industry converge on New York City today for Digital Book World Conference + Expo. Cenveo Publisher Services invites you to stop by Stand T1 and see examples of features and functionalities we help input into an ebook publishing program.

WHAT'S NEXT FOR BOOKS + DIGITAL CONTENT?

Ebooks are mainstream and elearning is part of the everyday curriculum in schools. Does your digital catalog reflect the reality of today?

Cenveo Publisher Services provides digital and print solutions to the world's leading publishers. Meet with us at Digital Book World Conference and Expo 2015 and let us demonstrate how we help publishers and media companies:

Whatever is beautiful,Whatever is meaningful,Whatever brings you happiness...May it be yours this Holiday Seasonand throughout the coming year!

The University of Texas Press is a book and journal publisher of international scope, issuing works in a wide range of fields. The scholarly publisher remains committed to its beliefs that books matter; books educate; and publishing good books is a public responsibility and a valuable component of higher education.

The Challenge

Recognizing a wealth of information in its backlist, The University of Texas Press wanted to bring new life to this content and transform the archive into digital format.

Solution

Cenveo Publisher Services partnered with the University of Texas Press on a backlist digitization project. The entire backlist of 2000 titles was converted to various eBook formats---ePub, Mobi, and print PDF. Due to limited print editions in the publisher’s vault, 400 titles were only available in hard copy format and required meticulous attention during the scanning process. The technology team from the Publishing Lab at Cenveo created and managed a cost-efficient transformation workflow while also accommodating special requests for particular titles such as special font and design requirements

On a monthly basis, source input files (image/normal PDF) or hardcopies were delivered to Cenveo’s offshore team in Mumbai, India. Upon successful and QA-tested conversion, files were returned to the publisher for digital distribution.

Result

Turnaround times were fantastic and we were happy with the quality of the results. The team was very responsive and excellent communicators. They contacted me immediately if there were problems with the files I submitted. Errors arise with any massive content initiative and when something went wrong, it didn’t stay wrong for long!

Within a short timespan, Cenveo Publisher Services digitized the library of legacy content and delivered three file formats (ePub, mobi, PDF) for each ebook. Reinvigorated with a new digital life, the extensive backlist of titles is now available from the major online vendors (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Kobo) and digital libraries (Ebrary, Ebsco, OverDrive, 3M, JSTOR, and ProjectMuse). The University of Texas Press is discovering new revenue streams as a result of ebook distribution while remaining true to its mission and belief that books matter.

Publishers have invested heavily in technology for decades. Have they reached the expected return on digital products? A 7-month long survey of a cross-section of publishers, media companies, and content-centric organizations conducted by Cenveo Publisher Services in conjunction with Publishing Executive magazine took the pulse of how organizations are investing and profiting from digital products.

This white paper includes information on how companies are driving digital engagement and boosting profitability. The survey responses are included in the appendix.

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Publishers continue to struggle with print vs. digital issues, says Marianne Calilhanna, marketing director of Cenveo Publisher Services. “Bottom lines are getting squeezed and the pressure to produce multi-output content is intense,” she explains. “Publishers want to know whether apps make sense for the STM segment, how to make money from e-learning, how the market will adapt to HTML5, or what HTML5 means for their digital products. These complex questions have no easy, single answer. The real answer is, ‘It depends,’ but that is, of course, not a satisfying response.”

Challenging and Changing Mind-sets

What is definite—and obvious—is the way publishers are starting to think about how print can support digital and vice versa. Calilhanna finds that “consumers no longer exist within separate buckets, but rather move across different media. A digital product is just one aspect of a greater publishing ecosystem, of which the print medium still plays an important part. The ‘print-is-dead’ hysteria has died down, as it is proven to be untrue and rather passé, and it is becoming clear that print and digital will enjoy a synergistic relationship.”

Cenveo Publisher Services is one of 10 finalists for the prestigious New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards. Bookbuilders of Boston established the Award and supporting event to honor excellence in the new publishing and information economy.